

These zones are barraged randomly with bombs for a relatively short time. In addition to the regular shrinking of the safe zone, temporary red zones may randomly appear. In general, better weapons and equipment are found in more dangerous parts of the map. Therefore, they must find guns and ammunition around abandoned houses or loot them from downed players. When players first reach the island, they have no supplies or weapons. The rate of health loss increases when the safe zone shrinks. The blue zone shrinks every few minutes, and anyone left in the zone will steadily lose health as long as they remain there, potentially to the point of death. When the plane finishes its flight, a blue border forms around the perimeter of the island, marking the boundary between the safe zone and the exterior blue zone. As they cross the map, players choose where to parachute down. The game begins with the participants flying in a plane over one of many possible maps, also selected before the match. After that, another 11 seconds or so until you die inside the zone, so potential max of about 33 minutes and 10 seconds if you try to heal yourself.

It takes exactly 32 minutes and 50 seconds for the zone to close completely. Players parachute down to a remote island and fight to remain as the last player standing, competing alone or in teams of two or four, depending on the game mode selected before the match. PUBG Mobile features gameplay similar to that of the original PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. In 2021, the game spawned an Indian version, Battlegrounds Mobile India, and a separate game taking place in the PUBG Universe, called New State Mobile. It is also the second most-played mobile video game of all time. By December 2022, PUBG Mobile had accumulated around 1.3 billion downloads while grossing over $9 billion, making it the third highest-grossing mobile game. It was published by multiple publishers in different regions, including Krafton, Tencent, and VNG Games.

It was initially released for Android and iOS on 19 March 2018.

It is a mobile game adaptation of PUBG: Battlegrounds. PUBG Mobile is a free-to-play battle royale video game developed by LightSpeed & Quantum Studio, a division of Tencent Games.
